Halfway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. “How are you? I’m good,” Garcia, a mother of three based in Orlando, Florida, nods into her phone. “For sure. Thank you.” She hangs up, pausing briefly. Then, in a soft voice, she explains that the call was from school; it was about one of her two younger children, who both attend the same K-12 school where her firstborn, Sewell Setzer III, had attended since childhood. “Sewell’s been going to that school since he was five,” she says, speaking of her eldest son in present-tense. “Everybody there knows him. […]
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Content Warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and other disturbing topics.
Partway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call.
